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Baptized Joseph Donat Armand Dupuis, he enlisted under the name Joseph Thomas Dupuis. Son of Roméo Dupuis and Marie Bertha St-Pierre. Brother of sailor Maurice Dupuis, member of the Royal Canadian Navy and survivor of World War II.
Enlisted at the 4th District Military Depot, he joined the 6th Canadian Infantry Reinforcement Unit in Debert, Nova Scotia. He embarked from Halifax, Nova Scotia, on May 5 for Great Britain, where he arrived on the 12th. Incorporated into Force M, he was transferred to the Royal 22nd Regiment on May 3, 1944, and sailed for Italy, where he landed on the 16th. On August 22, he was integrated into the 4th Battalion. On September 20, 1944, he was slightly wounded in combat for the first time in his right shoulder in the Palazzo Paradiso sector, near San Fortunato. He returned to duty on October 5 and was wounded again in combat on the 22nd near Case Gentili. He was discharged from the hospital on November 5 and returned to the front line on the 6th. He was killed in action on December 2, 1944, on the banks of the Lamone River near Russi. He was buried in the regimental cemetery along the road northwest of Russi, in grave number 2, near Ravenna. After the war, around July 3, 1945, his remains were exhumed and reburied in Ravenna. He had served 566 days, including 242 overseas.
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Page 297 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RAVENNA WAR CEMETERY Italy
The site for the cemetery was selected by the Army in 1945 for burials from the surrounding battlefields. Ravenna was taken by the Canadian Corps at the beginning of December 1944, and the burials in the cemetery there reflect the fighting for the Senio line and the period of relative quiet during the first three months of 1945. Many of the men buried there were Canadians; one of the last tasks of the Canadian Corps before being moved to north-west Europe was the clearing of the area between Ravenna and the Comacchio lagoon. Others are Indians from the 10th Indian Division, and New Zealanders. The Cemetery also contains the graves of 30, 1914-18 War casualties concentrated in March 1974 from Gradisca Communal Cemetery , Italy and 3 other burials concentrated from other minor cemeteries in Italy. There are now over 30 graves of the First World War and 956 graves plus one Special Memorial of the Second World War.
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